Colossians 4:1 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹ Masters, render unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ MASTERS, [on your part] deal with your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that also you have a Master in heaven. [Lev. 25:43, 53.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Masters, render unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.

Common English Bible

¹ Masters, be just and fair to your slaves, knowing that you yourselves have a master in heaven.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ You masters, supply your servants with what is just and equitable, knowing that you, too, have a Master in heaven.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ Masters, do to your servants that which is just and equal: knowing that you also have a master in heaven.

Colossians 4:1 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of judgement and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for one higher than the high regardeth; and there be higher than they.

Isaiah 58:3

Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find your own pleasure, and exact all your labours.

Leviticus 19:13

Thou shalt not oppress thy neighbour, nor rob him: the wages of a hired servant shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.

Malachi 3:5

And I will come near to you to judgement; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers; and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

Matthew 20:4

and to them he said, Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way.

Luke 19:15

And it came to pass, when he was come back again, having received the kingdom, that he commanded these servants, unto whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by trading.

James 2:13

For judgement is without mercy to him that hath shewed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgement.

James 5:4

Behold, the hire of the labourers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

Revelation 17:14

These shall war against the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings; and they also shall overcome that are with him, called and chosen and faithful.

Revelation 19:16

And he hath on his garment and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.